I could make a reasoned argument here, defending Happy Endings and its numerous funny characters. Instead I'm going to reply as follows:

Princip killing the archduke set the events in motion, but it would have remained a localized conflict without the massive tangles of alliances that Bismark brought into being. With the alliance system he pioneered and the military arms race he set in motion, eventually some conflict somewhere was going to set…

It's less easy to simplify the causes of WWI to "That guy did it." WWI was going to happen at some point; it's actually surprising it took as long as it did.

Nathan Ford's Evil Twin, it's like you read my mind and then state it 100x better. I don't know why I even bother to comment.

But, really, why buy a color TV to watch a black and white movie? Also, no dancing and monkeys.

They didn't specify which single episode. Season finale drama!

I really don't have anything more to say than "yay!", so, um, yay!

I tried to look it up, and all I could find was evangelical websites accusing the Catholic Church of being a pagan front. So yeah.

You get a like just for talking about Octopus Pie.

And work on their half-Scottish accent.

#sixnovelsandamovieadaptation

@avclub-eb51727cd6e697842c08dd7b4112c71e:disqus  Why can't we just hope FX starts playing those instead of 2.5 Men and the Transformers movies? It would be so great.

So we're using false comparisons to defend against idiotic arguments. This is why we can't have nice things.

We know he directed Party Down. Does the majority of Modern Family's fanbase know that? Probably not.

It also helps if you played a lot of Nintendo/Sega as a kid and watched cartoons where people beat each other up in exaggerated ways.

@avclub-19db33a7920e55ba3a32ab69d87f65b8:disqus Oh. A Community reference…sniff

Man child might not be the best term, but his feminine/metrosexual side becomes increasingly over-the-top. That he goes from drinking beer to ordering an appletini "easy on the tini" is evidence of this.

ANY DEVIATION FROM THE WAR ON TERROR WILL CAUSE THE TERRORISTS TO WIN AND INSTITUTE SHARIA LAW!

Apparently Frank still does? Also, apparently people are still publishing his works, presumably because they think they can make money from doing so.

I respectfully disagree on the second book being the best, but that's likely in part because I never bought the love triangle which first gets emphasized in 2. Also, a lot of it feels like mere set-up for 3, IMHO.